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Ovid's Art of love, in three books. : Together with his Remedy of love. /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Corporate Author: Todd A. Herring Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Other Authors: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, Hopkins, Charles, 1664?-1700?, Dryden, John, 1631-1700 (Translator), Congreve, William, 1670-1729 (Translator), Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715 (Translator), Maynwaring, Arthur, 1668-1712 (Translator), Gribelin, Samuel (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for J. Tonson at Shakespear's Head in the Strand, MDCCXXXV. [1735]
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Portraits.
Love poetry > Early works to 1800.
Latin poetry > Translations into English > Early works to 1800.
Poésie d'amour > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Latin poetry > Translations into English.
Love poetry.
Early works.
Portraits.
Description
Item Description:Translations by John Dryden, William Congreve, Nahum Tate, Arthur Mainwaring ("The court of love") and Charles Hopkins ("The history of love")
Illustrations signed Sam.l Gribelin Junior, Sculp.
Special title page: The history of love. A poem in a letter to a lady. By Mr. Charles Hopkins. Printed in the year 1735.
Head- and end-pieces; factotum initials.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:323 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm